🏈American Football Emoji
Generally, the 🏈 emoji just means American football. People use it to represent the sport, a football play, or anything related to it in a text.
The 🏈 emoji is an American football.
- Unicode
- U+1F3C8
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :football:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏈 American Football emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as super emoji.
American Football emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the american football has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
American Football emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :football:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the american football, code point U+1F3C8.
How to type the 🏈 American Football emoji
No picker to hand? The american football can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
American Football emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the american football as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
American Football emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around american football for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🏈, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🏈 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the american football and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🏈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F3C8, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🏈 vs 🏉 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: American Football
Code: U+1F3C8 · added 2010
Shortcode: :football:
Generally, the 🏈 emoji just means American football.
Unicode name: Rugby Football
Code: U+1F3C9 · added 2015
Shortcode: :rugby_football:
Generally, it just means rugby.
Where the 🏈 American Football emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F3C8 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🏈 existed there as
KDDI au E4BB, SoftBank E42B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
American Football was approved as U+1F3C8 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏈 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.